ESSRIG ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

ESSRIG ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an elementary campus of mid-tier scale in TAMPA, Florida, overseen by HILLSBOROUGH, educateing 608 students in grades pre-K through 5.

HILLSBOROUGH runs 300 schools in total, collectively educating 221,318 students. ESSRIG ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, ESSRIG ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports that 57% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. The remainder breaks down as 23% White, 9% Black, 6% multiracial, 4% Asian. By comparison, Hillsborough County as a whole is about 30% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, On paper, ESSRIG ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has 40 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.5:1, putting ESSRIG ELEMENTARY SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. About 44% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, ESSRIG ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 59.0%, the actual is 55.3%, a residual of -3.7 points.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Hillsborough County indicate median household earnings sit near $79,540, 38% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. In all, Hillsborough County runs 320 public schools (combined enrollment of about 223,193 students), of which ESSRIG ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.

HILL MIDDLE SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.1 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, ESSRIG ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 3rd of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 53.6%.

Geographically, the school is in a commuter-belt area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at ESSRIG ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has fell 8%, going from 659 students in 2018 to 608 in 2025. The White share of enrollment fell from 30% to 23% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 14.0:1 in 2018 to 15.3:1 today.

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